Product Description: Winner of the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize in Humor. Nominated for 2001 Grammy for the Spoken Word.
Amazon.com Review: If you're already familiar with Finn and Sawyer, perhaps this collection of fragments, short stories, and essays--assembled posthumously some few decades ago now, but still fresh--will enhance your sense of Twain's true range. A particular favorite: his essay "The Damned Human Race," wherein he proves, rather convincingly, that an anaconda snake is a higher form of life than an English Earl.
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Rating: - Hilarious and Insightful
Letters from the Earth / 0-06-092105-6
Whatever else may be said about Twain, it cannot be denied that the man had a biting satirical sense of the foolish and he displays his wit most superbly ... Read More
Rating: - Pleasantly un-Twain-like
Bought this upon the recomendation of Robin Williams in Rolling Stone, and was not disappointed. It's been a while since I read Finn and Sawyer, etc., but this was a wonderful, adult eye-opener of wit and ... Read More
Rating: - Not the whole book.
I was disappointed when I received the book. Bernard Devos edited a collection of MT's late writings entitled _Letters from the Earth_, and that's what I expected. What I received was just those essays comprising ... Read More
Rating: - Twain at its best
The book was published posthumously, and you immediately understand why by reading the first part, about Satan on holiday on earth, writing letters with his impressions of the place back to his pals in heaven. As ... Read More
Rating: - STILL HAVE IT!
I have a had an old paperback copy of this for 20 years now, so this copy is just a "newer version". I fell in love with MT as a result of this work that I originally read in 1984, and have not taken religion, or ... Read More
- Hilarious and Insightful
- Pleasantly un-Twain-like
- Not the whole book.